Watching the anxious Tapai, Sun Jack said with a smile, "Don't worry, there are still three clone Sun Jacks who have already snuck in."
"Since we've come here, we must have everything ready."
No sooner had Sun Jack finished speaking than they heard a voice come through the communication channel. "Found the original body!"
Upon hearing this, Tapai rushed inside at top speed.
It seemed as though a great battle had just ended in the cave, with blood and fire everywhere.
As he searched frantically, the door of a container flung open with a clang, and Tapai saw two clone Sun Jacks carrying out another, whose body was badly damaged.
The injured Sun Jack smiled at Tapai, "Thanks, Tapai. Speaking of which, why did you change your look again? Where's your old hairstyle, all spiked up?"
Tapai walked over, pulled out a data cable, and inserted it into the jack behind the other's ear. Once he confirmed that the memory was indeed Sun Jieke's original body, he hugged the other tightly. "Sun Jack! You son of a bitch!! Do you know how long I've looked for you? I almost thought you were really dead!"
"Son of a bitch! Your mother dies, not me!"
Sun Jack gave Tapai a punch on the shoulder, "Alright, alright, let go of me. Let's head back. The humanity of the digital personality is about to disappear, right? Hurry up, let's go back and upload and overlay my consciousness to replace him."
"Let's go, home." Supporting him, Tapai began walking toward the outside. "Damn, I thought as much. No wonder I couldn't find you anywhere. Turns out you were captured here. By the way, what did those Wild Men want with you?"
"What else could they want? They wanted me to use DNA technology to cure them back to normal, you really didn't know, huh? These Wild Men actually have spies in the Metropolis, secretly observing everything in Metropolis to see what might help them."
"Seeing that DNA could fix their physical defects, they were over the moon. Actually, if you guys hadn't come, I could have just kept bluffing them until they were crippled."
In the midst of their conversation, they boarded Steelheart's intercity airship, heading in the direction of Metropolis.
Upon reaching the airship, faced with an approaching medical robot, he outright refused its services.
He turned to look at the clone beside him and said, "Why waste the effort? This body is almost completely ruined. How about we just overlap consciousnesses? It's also a good time for me to see what's been happening in Metropolis while I was away."
"Alright." As the clone Sun Jack nodded, their consciousnesses quickly overlapped. The original damaged body instantly fell silent, while the clone grasped his head in painful expressions.
"Fuck, this really feels like shit."
"There are too many different memories, but fortunately, you came back early. If a few more months had passed, with too many different memories, even if you wanted to, you wouldn't have been able to overlap the clone consciousness anymore," said Tapai.
After taking a sip of water handed to him by Tapai, the breathless Sun Jack said, "Then I must hurry back and overlap all the clones to ensure the consistency of consciousness."
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"So, the boss of FFP is that Lan Meng guy, right?" Sun Jack asked the Awakened AI in front of him once more.
"Yes, that's correct. He is the supreme ruler of this international group. Unlike the Holy Grail you spoke so democratically and freely about, he is the actual Final Producer," UO floated and replied.
Sun Jack rubbed his swollen temples. Through UO's introduction, he gained a preliminary understanding of the enemy who had imprisoned him.
Through UO's briefing, he also learned that even Metropolis was involved with FFP, and Youzhi AI Co., Ltd. was just a small part of the FFP group's corporate blueprint.
The assistant AI Youyou from AA was a product of their company, and the AIs that interrogated digital personalities, like the ones Xiao Ting had, were all cracked versions modified from Youyou AI.
"Then I just don't understand, what's the purpose of such a big shot, a big boss doing huge deals, in capturing me?"
"That's simple, you've caused him a huge loss," UO said as it passed through Sun Jack's chest, "Just for that alone, you could have died who knows how many times over."
"But the problem is, I haven't died, not only have I not died, but I'm also alive and well. What exactly do they want to do with my original body?" This question had been on Sun Jack's mind for a long time, yet he still had no clue whatsoever.
He simply couldn't figure out how the other party was going to solve the trouble he caused without any contact.
Furthermore, it had been such a long time. If they really wanted to do something, they should have started by now. Thinking of this made Sun Jack suddenly uneasy.
"No, I still have to find a way out. Even if I can't get out, at least I have to find a way to send a message out to tell Tapai and the others that I'm right here."
As Sun Jack was thinking, he turned his thoughts towards UO again. "Next question, is there any way to get out of here?"
"Stupid human, do you think I can answer that question? If I really could, do you think I'd still be here?"
"Then let me change the question, has anyone ever escaped from this prison?"
"No."
"Is there any way to get a message out?" Sun Jack continued to ask.
"Don't you have too many questions? According to our previous agreement, it's my turn to ask you now."
Sun Jack sighed, "Go ahead." For that bit of information, this guy had stripped him bare.
"Si Ai and Hilda, which one do you like?"
Sun Jack was completely speechless. "Are you serious? Are you just that gossipy? Don't you have anything else to ask? Can't you ask something useful?"
"You, an extreme idealist, I'm not interested in anything else about you. I am interested in your emotional life."
"OK, fine, I like them both, happy?"
"Scumbag."
"Bro! I went for the second one only after the first died! Besides, they're both dead!"
"Then you really curse them. Being your woman is truly dangerous. Maybe you should consider men instead."
Sun Jack was speechless again; after all this meandering conversation, if nothing else, it had learned how to taunt and insult with a sarcastic wit.
"Talking to you is just a waste of time." Sun Jack said, and turned to leave UO's cell, headed for the next one.
Now knowing that his own body was completely fictional, Sun Jack wasn't afraid anymore and barged straight in. "Friend, let's have a chat, shall we?"
However, the cell was completely empty, without a thing inside.
"Empty?" Just as Sun Jack was about to leave, he thought twice, came back, and reached out to feel around the empty cell.
After feeling around, Sun Jack always felt that something was off; it seemed like there was something there, just that he couldn't perceive it.